A Flower for . . .

. . . my 50th follower!  Thank you, Cherie!  

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I processed this vintage rose with Flypaper Textures and Kim Klassen's "Warm Sun" texture.  Thanks for the inspiration.

The Iris Show

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I think I mentioned in another post that I enjoy going to flower shows with my camera.  This weekend was the Monterey Bay Iris Society, the most difficult one to photograph.  

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The flowers are gorgeous, but the show takes place in a mall, the lighting is terrible, and the backgrounds are worse.  I took about 50 pictures, but only got these few that I could work with.  

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This is what I love about textures -- they couldn't fix every one, but they made all the difference for these few.

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I might keep working on the top one -- I'm not too happy with the strong difference in the background color.  What do you think?

Except for the last picture, which uses lovely textures from Kim Klassen,  all textures I used are from Flypaper Textures, which I  love.  Their textures come in very rich colors, which I like, and give the effect of wonderful different materials, stone, sky, fabric of various kinds.  More and  more, I use them with the "hard light" blending mode, because I like to actually see the texture -- I guess there's not much subtlety about the ways I use them :)

I have 38 followers now!  Two more, and we'll have the giveaway.  Join me! :)